Virtual Data Resources

What is a Virtual Data Resource?

Virtual Data Resources put your data models at the center of your application ecosystem and enable you to manage the data you care about in the structure that is best for your application or business.

Virtual Data Resources provide a canonicalized view of your data objects while eliminating the need for point-to-point mapping of data to each and every new application. Our Virtual Data Resources leverage the enriched API models maintained by Cloud Elements to make it easier to map from your defined resources, to the endpoints you require.

Why use a Virtual Data Resource?

Traditional integration platforms are point-to-point, meaning each new application needs to be connected directly to every other application in the ecosystem. Point-to-point integration is not the right solution for external integration embedded in your platform and is difficult to scale.

Many integration platforms ignore the fundamental value of integration – the data, making it impossible to create centralized or canonicalized data models that can be governed by an organization.

Consistent developer UX across endpoints.

How to use Virtual Data Resources

Use our pre-built templates to quickly map /contacts, /companies, and /leads. We are adding more all the time – contact us and let us know what you need to speed up your integrations.

Manage your custom data through our UI or write directly to our APIs. For a low-code data mapping experience, use our UI to easily map your domain model to the cloud services you are using.

VDR Templates:

NEW! Virtual Data Resource templates are now available for the Cloud Elements community! We’ve created a set of VDR templates for some of the most common use cases and data mapping needs seen from our customers, and pre-mapped them to multiple endpoints for you! This includes the field mapping and all the JavaScript transformations required.

You can view a catalog of example VDR templates in the Cloud Elements UI. Clone them, and make them yours!